Matt Carlisle

Chief Experience Officer and Founder, Big Heart Design

RCCongress 2010 Workshop:

Web Ministry 3.0: A view of emerging tools and applications

Matt Carlisle is the founder of Big Heart Design, a user-centered design company located in Nashville, Tennessee.

Big Heart Design partners with nonprofit organizations to help bring to life web sites and online applications focused on education, advocacy, benevolence, the arts, healthcare and spirituality. Big Heart empowers your ideas to ultimately make the world a better place for all.

Matt Carlisle is a 15-year veteran of nonprofit web development. As the former director of web ministry at United Methodist Communications, Carlisle spent five years as the executive designer, producer and editor of UMC.org, the official web site of The United Methodist Church. During that time, Carlisle instituted the use of cutting edge web applications, and directed the development and establishment of a United Methodist design system.

Before joining United Methodist Communications in 2002, Carlisle was the associate director of communications for the Indiana Area of The United Methodist Church. He served as communications coordinator for Bethany Lutheran Church in Denver, Colorado. Additionally, Carlisle directed young adult ministry programming for Denver’s historic Trinity United Methodist Church.

Web Ministry 3.0: A view of emerging tools and applications

Just when you were getting used to Web 2.0 and its meaning, the Web 3.0 whispering has begun. Web 2.0 and 3.0 are simply terms used to describe the future of the World Wide Web. Views on Internet evolution vary greatly, but many believe that emerging technologies such as the Semantic Web will transform the way the Web is used, and lead to new possibilities in artificial intelligence. If the next iteration (Web 3.0) will make it possible for web technology to understand and meet the requests of people, then people of faith will face many new theological questions.

Web Ministry 3.0: A view of emerging tools and applications will be a highly experiential workshop that looks at where the next iteration of the Internet is headed. The workshop leader will highlight a number of emerging Web-based applications and then lead an open dialogue focused on the impact of these emerging technologies, their theological underpinnings and how church communicators should use them effectively, if at all.